Agents of SMOOCH

We are not ready to part from Pride & Prejudice yet, so we have extended our mission to include the 2005 version. This beautifully shot film provides our agents with a sweeping romantic version of the story that we cannot resist.

Pride & Prejudice 2005

Host Annette Wierstra with Katie Mack, Sandra Wong, and Moisés Chiullán.

Interview with Director Joe Wright in Variety

We are here in praise of Austen’s Pride & Prejudice but also for wet shirts, poorly executed proposals, and good face acting. Join our much overdue mission about BBC’s 1995 Pride & Prejudice. Since this mission was as fun as a ball at Netherfield, it may lead to more infatuated missions about other Austen adaptations.

BBC Pride & Prejudice 1995

Host Annette Wierstra with Kirsten Goruk, Erika Ensign, and Katie Mack.

Today’s mission is a slight jump back in time to 2003 to learn How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Does this movie have a ridiculous premise? Oh yeah. Do our Agents care? Not really. We just want to wear some diamonds and find someone to take care of our love fern.

How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Host Annette Wierstra with Kirsten Goruk.

Get your snacks ready and PJs on. Our Agents of SMOOCH have a mission to draft our favourite sleep-over movies. The Agents side-track into important sub-missions such as Instagram pyjamas and the weather and what is needed in an official SMOOCH cocktail and pirates and…

This was recorded as a membership episode so it does have some NSFW language.

Sleepover Movie and Snack Draft

Host Annette Wierstra with Shelly Brisbin, Amanda McTaggart, Moisés Chiullán, KatyBeth Schmid, and Kathy Campbell.

Official Agents of SMOOCH tee

Round 1: Favourite sleepover snacks

Round 2-4: Favourite sleepover movies

Bring out your dead:

Also some more we had to throw in: Magic Mike, Show Girls, Burlesque

Baz super cut for the Record

In our last episode, we couldn’t get enough Star Trek in the Draft. So today’s mission is all about romance in Star Trek. The Agents gave their director some homework and she came prepared. es, this franchise is all about seeking out strange new worlds, but also sexy aliens. Really, a spaceship is just a locked room romance and we are all looking for love in confined spaces. Let’s meet on the holodeck and boldly go where no one has gone before.

Romance in Star Trek

Host Annette Wierstra with Jean MacDonald and Shelly Brisbin.

Some of the specific episodes we discuss and our Director’s homework:

Want more Star Trek? Listen to the Incomparable’s Star Trek Podcasts:

Or go back in time and listen to Shelly Brisbin’s old movie podcast Lions, Towers, and Shields

Happy Valentine’s Day Agents! Today is OUR day. It is also our 5th anniversary and we are celebrating with not-a-draft of One True Pairings (OTPs). This is such a wide and encompassing topic and yet some Agents think that it includes all together too much Star Trek. But at the Agency we like a lotta things so in this not-a-draft there is an OTP for everyone.

One True Pairing (OTP) Draft

Host Annette Wierstra with Jean MacDonald, Sarah Murphy, Kathy Campbell, Shelly Brisbin, and Moisés Chiullán.

ROUND 1

ROUND 2

ROUND 3

OTHER THINGS DISCUSSED

It’s the Christmas tradition we created ourselves! We don our Santa hats, gather our Bingo cards, and surround ourselves with lots of snacks. It’s time for this year’s in-person Christmas movie marathon. This year we watched:

Get on your pjs, make yourself comfy, and join us!

Annual Christmas Movie Marathon

Host Annette Wierstra with Steven Schapansky, Erika Ensign, and Kirsten Goruk.

Download our Christmas Movie Bingo cards!

We are still in the season of the witch here at the Agency. Join our coven as we search for the Wtiches’ Road in Agatha All Along. We start with a quick spoiler-free pitch to watch this glorious show before getting into the vibes and feelings and wardrobe-we are suckers for a good coat. Take off your shoes and stay on the path witches. We might all make it to the end.

Agatha All Along

Host Annette Wierstra with James Thomson and Heather Berberet.

Listen to our friends Dan Moren, John Moltz and Guy English on the Incomparable BIFF podcast because they did an episode by episode podcast for Agatha All Along. Go listen for a more indepth conversation.

Watching the Assembled episode for Agatha on YouTube is well worth your time.

And we can’t forget Kathryn Hahn Sings the Entire History of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Heather mentioned a National Geographic documentary called Witches: Truth Behind the Trials which is available on Disney and Nat Geo. Watch the trailer.

If anyone thinks that Jane Austen is about sedate manners and social niceties, they ought to dive straight into this mission about Northanger Abbey. This novel is Austen’s version of Mean Girls and there is a lot of naughty business happening below the surface of polite society. Join our Agents as they discuss the novel and the 2007 movie adaptation with Felicity Jones and JJ Feild.

Kirsten swore once and I am giving her a special exemption to keep it in.

Northanger Abbey

Host Annette Wierstra with Kirsten Goruk.

Is it a Gothic Romance series if we don’t wander the English moors? Of course not! Join our agents as they discuss Jane Eyre focusing on the 2011 movie and the book. While we like the moody story of Jane and her Mr. Rochester, we have a few suggestions for the next adaptation.

Jane Eyre (2011)

Host Annette Wierstra with Heather Berberet and Moisés Chiullán.

Link to the Broadway Jane Eyre Musical